placeholder image to represent content

TEKS Grade 8 Science - 8.9 Plate Tectonics

Quiz by Texas Education Agency

Grade 8
Science (2017)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Feel free to use or edit a copy

includes Teacher and Student dashboards

Measures 1 skill from
Grade 8
Science (2017)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

8.9b

Track each student's skills and progress in your Mastery dashboards

With a free account, teachers can
  • edit the questions
  • save a copy for later
  • start a class game
  • view complete results in the Gradebook and Mastery Dashboards
  • automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
  • assign as homework
  • share a link with colleagues
  • print as a bubble sheet

Our brand new solo games combine with your quiz, on the same screen

Correct quiz answers unlock more play!

New Quizalize solo game modes
11 questions
Show answers
  • Q1
    The model below shows two continental plates. The folded mountains in this model form at which type of plate boundary?
    Question Image
    Divergent boundary
    Transform boundary
    Subduction boundary
    Convergent boundary
    60s
    8.9b
  • Q2
    The thick black lines on the map below show the locations of mid-ocean ridges. Which geologic feature is most likely to form at a mid-ocean ridge?
    Question Image
    Peninsula
    Delta
    Volcano
    Plateau
    60s
    8.9b
  • Q3
    The image shows a plate boundary. Arrows have been added to indicate the movement of the plates. What plate boundary feature is also shown?
    Question Image
    A valley forming at an active divergent boundary
    A fault forming at an active transform boundary
    A ridge formed by an inactive convergent boundary
    A volcano formed by an active transform boundary
    60s
    8.9b
  • Q4
    The map below shows the locations of four active volcanoes in the Caribbean Sea. What do these volcanoes indicate about plate tectonics in the region?
    Question Image
    The volcanoes form a line, indicating a diverging plate boundary.
    The volcanoes form an island arc, indicating a converging plate boundary.
    Two plates are moving apart, creating new seafloor
    Two plates are moving past each other, causing faulting and magma formation.
    60s
    8.9b
  • Q5
    Rift valleys can form when fractures in Earth’s crust widen. The valley walls slowly move at a rate of only a few millimeters a year. Which of these best describes the type of tectonic activity that forms rift valleys?
    Rift valleys form where two plates move away from each other.
    Rift valleys form where a continental plate moves under an oceanic plate.
    Rift valleys form where a plate slides horizontally past another plate.
    Rift valleys form where an oceanic plate moves under another oceanic plate.
    60s
    8.9b

Teachers give this quiz to your class